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Addressing the digital divide’s effects on education and the workforce

eSchool News

The digital divide refers to the gap between those who have access to modern information and technology that support info-sharing and those who have little to no access. Although we’re seeing more companies getting back into the office, 26 percent of U.S. million American employees will be working remotely by 2025.

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Harnessing The Future of AI without Losing Our Way

The CoolCatTeacher

is estimated to replace 85 million jobs by 2025, but 97 million new jobs will be created due to A.I.” Job Loss by McKinsey and Company. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. The future is everybody will be a supervisor.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Testers refer to people who took and completed a full equivalency exam, which can be taken in several parts and sittings. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025. That’s because two of the testing companies do not publicly disclose their results, nationally or by state.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Foundations had given seed money.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Or they might hire unqualified workers and train them in-house – which could harm productivity and drive away companies considering relocating to Georgia, Smith said.

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More colleges are opening branch campuses in high-demand markets

The Hechinger Report

LAS VEGAS — Among its many other nicknames, this landlocked desert city is often jokingly referred to by Hawaiians as their state’s ninth island. There are hula-dancing and lei-making lessons and outposts of Hawaii’s iconic Honolulu Cookie Company and ABC convenience stores. More than 40,000 have stayed permanently.

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Best Practices for Securing a School District’s IoT Devices & Infrastructure

Lightspeed Systems

SoftBank Group, an internet services company, predicts there will be over one trillion devices connected on the IoT by 2025, or about 100 devices per person. They should be; you get what you pay for (refer, again, to that $53 billion amount mentioned above). So, the IoT is huge in scope, and that compounds a growing problem.

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